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Val Thorens: hotels

Val Thorens has a number of luxury accommodation options

15 August 2016 • 10:00am

Prices are per person, based on two sharing a double or twin, for seven nights, unless otherwise stated

Budget

Catherine and adjoining Oliver form one of only a handful of stand-alone chalet buildings in a resort where apartments and hotels dominate. The chalets are ski-in/ski-out and sleep 18 and 12 respectively. They are run and catered separately but share a sauna on the ground floor. From £719 for chalet half-board, including flights and transfers, from Ski Total.

UCPA is a not-for-profit holiday centre that offers shared rooms, open-plan social areas and an on-site bar. If you’re prepared to mix with like-minded skiers and snowboarders of all different nationalities, then you can enjoy a stay here at remarkably low cost in what is more hotel than hostel. The centre offers good food and has recently been completely renovated. From £500 for full board, equipment hire, lift pass and tuition or guiding from Action Outdoors.

Residence Les Temple du Soleil is one of the older ski-in/ski-out apartment blocks at the foot of the slopes and close to the lifts. From £523 for a self-catering studio that sleeps four people, not including travel from Pierre et Vacances.

Mid-range

Le Hameau du Kashmiris a four-star hotel and apartment hamlet that is ideally located at the entrance of Val Thorens, just metres from the mid station ski lifts.This little complex, built in traditional Savoyard style, is ski-in/ski-out and has a pool, spa, and two restaurants. From £1,236 for the whole of two bedroom self-catering apartment that sleeps four, including self-drive Eurotunnel crossings, from Ski Collection.

Val Thorens Sensations is the latest offering from all-inclusive experts Club Med. The architecture of the building was designed to stand out – built in the shape of the operator’s trident logo. Inside the atmosphere is as exciting as the architecture with daily après in the two hotel bars. There two restaurants to choose from – the Epicurious, with a menu designed by twice Michelin-starred Edouard Loubet, and the Yurt, a more informal buffet affair for breakfast, lunch and dinner – so dining choice is never a problem, and with 384 modern rooms spread across 10 floors neither is choosing your accommodation. From £1,100 all-inclusive, including flights and transfers, from Club Med.

Luxury

Altapura is one of the more recent Alpine properties from the superb hotel artist and designer, Jocelyne Sibuet. Famed for her gorgeous hotel Fermes de Marie in Megève, the Altapura is more cutting edge Scandinavian chic than cosy. It's, however, a bit out of the way for the nightlife, at the foot of the slopes in the centre of the resort, but houses one of Sibuet's signature spas and and a choice of three restaurants, including Les Enfants Terribles.. From £1,880 in a club room half-board, including flights and transfers, from Scott Dunn.

Koh-i Nor is the highest five-star in the Alps, named after what was once the largest diamond in the world. At the top of the town, with panoramic views over the resort, it has 35 lavish apartments as well as hotel rooms, a spa, restaurants, child care, a lounge bar and an equipment hire shop. Everything is decorated in modern alpine style with natural fabrics and is all very family-friendly with restaurant menus for kids and mini spa treatments. From £5,307 for a junior suite, half-board, not including travel, from Erna Low.